Unplayable Lies: (The Only Golf Book You'll Ever Need)

Unplayable Lies: (The Only Golf Book You'll Ever Need)

<b>Forty-one essays on golf. Half of the essays are brand new, the others are all reworked and rewritten, based on pieces that were originally published in <i>Golf Digest</i>. Often biting, usually cranky, always hilarious and surprising€"this is Dan Jenkins at his best, writing about the sport he loves the most.</b> <br><br>     "I've always wanted to do something for the golfer who has everything. I thought about a suede golf cart, or maybe a pair of cashmere Footjoys. Then I settled on writing this book." So begins Dan Jenkins's latest€"and funniest€"collection of golf essays. The book consists of thirty-eight essays, all of them, as Dan says in the first essay, are "literally throbbing with opinion."<br>     In this book Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen; the funniest things said on a golf course; the rivalries on tour and in the press box; the game's most magical moments€"and its most absurd. <i>Unplayable Lies</i> is an ode to the game Jenkins loves. But it <i>is </i>Dan Jenkins, so nothing€"even the game of golf€"can escape his wrath, his critical eye, or his acerbic pen. The best way to describe it is to turn the book over to Mr. Jenkins: <br>     In "Titanic and I"€"probably the most hilarious and surprising essay in the book, telling true stories of Titanic Thompson: gambler, golf hustler, accused murderer, legendary storyteller€"Dan explains how Titanic would win a wager by saying he could knock a bird off a telephone wire: "Titanic would drop a ball on the ground and take out his four-wood, waggle it, and pretend to aim at the bird on the wire. When some sucker would bet him he couldn't do it, Ti would pull out a gun he carried and shoot the bird off the wire."<br>     In "The Greatest Rounds": "Show me a man who doesn't know what Arnold did in the last round of the '60 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills, and I'll show you a soccer fan in Paraguay."<br>     This is a perfect follow up to <i>His Ownself</i>. It even has an Introduction by Sally Jenkins, one of the country's top sportswriters and Dan's own darling daughter.